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James
McVitie's Lyles Creams Review |
Just for the record - the full story with the lion (abridged) is that Samson killed it, came back later to find a nest of bees in it. Took the honey. Made up a riddle about it. (Hence the strength and sweetness tag line). Dunno how Virgil got involved, Samson was around about 3000 years before him.
Cool site by the way.
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Nicey replies: OK. There was the bit about its flesh getting eaten by something, neither bees or Samson, adding a bit of irony to the first bit of the riddle. |
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Katie Drummond
McVitie's Lyles Creams Review |
Dear Nicey
I have just found your website and am suitably impressed. Possibly even better than www.rathergood.com and its Uber-Pea animation.
Anyway, I just wanted to inform your readers about the origin of the dead lions and bees motif on the golden syrup packaging. In Book IV of his long poem (in Latin) on country life, Virgil wrote about the ever-fascinating practise of bee-keeping. In this book he examines the mythological origin of bees. It was believed that Aristaeus was the keeper of bees and he lost his swarm somehow (I don't actually have the book on me at work, and left university a long time ago so can't recall the full details here.....). Someone or other (a god possibly?) told him that they would arise again from the carcase of a dead lion if left long enough, so he found a dead lion and left it for a while and sure enough the bees swarmed out of it. Or something like that.
Keep up the good work and stop slagging off Marmite.
Katie
PS have you ever tried drinking tea THROUGH a Tim-Tam? Bite off each end and suck. Recommended. |
Nicey replies: I'm not sure anything compares to Crab bloke's Uber-Pea.
As for lions and bees, I'm sure your right and that was what Samson was banging on about too in his own brand of wit.
I wasn't slagging off Marmite, just making fair and rational observations.
And finally, yes thats the Tim-Tam slam, and no we didn't try it as it seemed a bit sordid. |
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